Tuesday, August 21, 2012

The Venus Project: The feasibility and Biblical aspects

The following are
only comments on the Biblical and feasibility aspects of The Venus Project
founded by Mr. Jacque Fresco.

The Venus Project proposal

Under the current
Monetary system

a)Resource Based
Economy where all food and resources are equallyshared and
distributed throughout the world.When a person gets to eat clean and a variety of fresh foods, it will
greatly reduce illness and hence reduce the need for medical treatment at the
same time.

Total removal of the monetary system including and not limited to all
forms of servitude, trade and barter systems.

a)Food and
resources are only shared and distributed where governments & companies
deemed it profitable; meanwhile, many parts of the world are left with hunger
and disease.

Because of the monetary system, slavery, illegal trade and
prostitution of not only body but also of the mind, time and betrayal of your
own conscience and family go rampant.

b)Introduce abundance
and variety of goods and natural resources such as water and electricity
in order to eliminate scarcity, theft and various crimes as much as
possible to a certain degree;

b)Scarcity are
purposed caused in order to push prices of commodities up for profit of
governments and corporations; as a result of scarcity, a new class of people
called the “poor & needy” have been developed and various crimes have
been committed due to the need to keep finding money to pay for food and
shelter and other human needs.

c)Highest level of
“clean and safe” production and service including progressive
automation of menial jobs and constantly developing ways to improve
maintenance from household to public industry in order to maximize utility
& durability while minimizing planned obsolesces.

For example, Supermarkets can be replaced by large vending machines
halls to dispense all types of normal supermarket goods, hence eliminating
the need for cashiers, packers and other types of personnel.Vending machines can be replenished
periodically (once or twice a day depending on how fast the goods are taken
up) directly by suppliers of each specific goods.

c)High level of
production and preserving the environment at the same time have seldom been
accepted by corporations that are only interested in profit because the
materials and overhaul needed to change current equipments and production
methods to environmentally friendly materials and equipments will cost
companies a huge price; which often companies and governments will turn a
blind eye.

No amount of protests or education is able to turn a government’s
decision to be fully committed to protect the environment so as long as you
are in a monetary based system.

d)All people are free
to pursue and excel in their areas of interest and are not bound by
obligation to find money or hindered by lack of time and money.

d)Often a person’s
personal interest or hobbies are hindered or cut off because of lack of money
and time due to “finding money long hours of work” commitments. Hence making
a person somewhat miserable.

How much time and personnel are wasted by one large corporation on
accounting staff and auditors with just one main purpose; that is to tell the
Chairman how much profit he is earning?

e)Education shall include
the widest range of general knowledge as well as customized to suite
each child’s learning curve.

e)Education shall
gradually move away from current limited subjects and grading system that
left many people behind, demoralized and with limited conceptual understanding.

f)Relaxing the context of patents to a degree of only
recording of details of invention and inventor; allowing inventions free
to be readily available for improvement or improvisation.

f)Improvement, innovation, research and development
are often deterred by lack of funding and patents are in place by inventors
to block other people to cash in on their ideas or even to improve on it.

g)Library system not only for
educational books, materials and school equipments but also for large &
bulky equipments as well, such as copier machines, cars, musical instruments
and etc to be made in the highest quality, quantity and variety available for
all people to borrow for use and return when finish using, so that it will
not sit in your house collecting dust or need a bigger house to store all
unnecessary clutter.If you are bored
with one model of equipment, the library system provides a wide variety of
models to try and use.

However, if you wish to obtain a new equipment from the manufacturer
to keep it at home, you are free do so as well.

g)People constantly
buying equipment that may be phased out within a year or two and continuously
need more money to buy newer models and need more space to store all the
equipments which will be discarded anyway when it is old.

h)Harnessing nature’s
clean power sources like wind, solar, geo-thermal, wave and etc, to
generate clean energy to protect the environment and people’s health.

h)Current heavy
dependence on fossil fuel, coal and nuclear energy have proved to be
environmentally damaging and detrimental to the health of mankind and
animals.

i)Governments or people working in the public sector shall be fashioned
along the lines of a “charitable
organization” where all are volunteers without any special benefits or
hidden agendas.

i)Many countries have governments that are in some
form of dictatorship, serving their own interests and profits at the cost of
its citizen’s lives.

j)The incentive to
go on working would be based on charitable nature and social responsibility.

Many people may just choose not to continue their present job.But think of it this way - a fish monger
tells a vegetable farmer that he still needs to eat vegetables and the farmer
also would like to be able to get some fish.Since this is a non barter system, both suppliers of fish and
vegetables only need continue on as they were – laying out their goods on the
table so that the chain of supply will not break.

In any case, it is best if those who wish to resign from their current
position should inform their local government office to apply for a volunteer
to take their place; or in the case of companies, to discuss with their team
of workers to get replacements or change the working conditions.

For example, since there is no
longer the issue of SALARIES, AGE, CONTRACTS, ETC; a factory that
formerly had 1000 employees can apply for 4000 volunteers to do rotating
shifts of 2 to 3 hours work per person instead of 9 hours work per
person.Reduction in working hours
may encourage workers to stay on to help as volunteers.

Parents teach their children ABC not because
they are paid to do it but they are doing what comes naturally, that is to
help their children to learn.

Parents bring home food for their family
not because they are hoping to get paid to do so but because it is necessary
for the survival and living condition of the family.

People should start to look
at vocations as a means of contribution to the Human Family instead of just
about earning money.

j)Money is not the actual drive that forces people to
work but the necessity to find food.Why do people enslave and prostitute
themselves to earn money?

In Malaysia, many times we
say, “I need to go out to find food” instead of “I need to go out to work”. The
phrase “Cari makan” in Malay means “find food” is commonly associated with
the need to work. So, our basic human need is to work in order
to find food, but somehow, money
got into the picture and became the “middle man / barrier / hurdle” that
all of mankind needs to overcome in order to get to the food and water.Since money is neither the means nor an
end.(“Means” being work and “an end”
being food); then money can be deemed totally unnecessary and can be taken out
of the equation in its entirety.

In the monetary system, poor people who are sick are
often still forced to go out to work with no chance and no opportunity to
take time off for convalesce.

A wealthy person
who works 18 hours a day could be just simply a workaholic who is determined
to fight the money barrier and win.

k)Anyone who does
NOT wish to work for whatever reason shall
not be forced to do volunteer work and you will NOT be called “names”.

k)Anyone who does
not want to work is called “lazy” in the monetary system.Wealthy people who do not work are called
“spoilt brats”.

The Venus Project
is just common sense and sounds like a perfectly good idea, but why has it not
taken off after so many years since its inception?

Is it because the
time is not yet ripe?

Christians alone will shrug off the idea
because they were indoctrinated by the “doctrines of men” that they have to
wait for Jesus to return to do all the work for them; while some other types of
Christians think that God will let them leave the earth and go into heaven and
let all the earth, unbelievers and its animals burn to a crisp.

Another reason
would be probably be that they were too ingrained into the monetary system that
they cannot see any way out.

Or is it plainly
because both the Venus Project and the Zeitgeist Movement previously paid no
respect to the Creator of the Heavens and the Earth?

If you do not know
where you came from, it will be difficult for you to get out of the clutches of
this world’s materialistic and sometimes Satanic culture.

John 4:42

“And said unto the woman, Now we believe, not because
of thy saying: for we have heard him ourselves, and know that this is indeed
the Christ, the Saviour of the world.”

Ephesians 5:23

“For the husband is the head of the wife, even as
Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.”

One of the purposes
of God choosing Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is to save the world and mankind (the
body of Christ); all the prophets that were sent by God in the Bible and the
purpose of Jesus of Nazareth coming to be born into this world is to save not
only your soul/spirit but also to save this world (earth) and all that is in it
created by God.

Technology
facilitates our civilization and attempts to increase our comfort zone.But technology alone cannot replace the guidance
and blessings of the LORD Most High who created the human race.

The human race is
able to invent and have the technological know-how to replace the current
fossil fuel and monetary based systems.But do you know where does your knowledge come from?Without a clear understanding of the
knowledge of the God of Israel, our own human knowledge will be bridled and can
be destructive again in a repetitive cycle even without the monetary system.

The “Resource Based
Economy” of abundance and re-education will solve all the problems of the poor
& needy people, and possibly end all money related crimes be it corporate
or individual; but it alone cannot solve wickedness of man, for if you had not
noticed already, it is the “comfortable people who lacked nothing” that are the
most destructive in deeds.Do I detest
comfort and promote hardship? Far from it, mankind was originally created to
enjoy the highest levels of comfort and abundance.Hardship came in when we chose to hide from
God’s guidance and instructions when we are yet little children.Repent of your old ways and get to know the
LORD and seek after the ways of the LORD and the Kingdom of God and all shall be
added unto you.

The
history of materialism and monetary system, gave rise to the system of hierarchy
and illusionary superiority instead giving importance to the family unit.

To many people,
Money today has become some sort of the pulse or blood veins of a society that
keeps running, moving and exchanging hands in a thriving economy and yet this
paper money is in itself are worthless pieces of printed-paper that has only
been created just a few hundred years ago.

Before the creation
of today’s type of empty paper money, China’s earliest “paper note” a few
thousand years ago were more towards the likes of promissory notes or delivery
orders, where a piece of printed note declares to the bearer the promised
delivery of certain goods when presented.Other than that, weight in commodities of precious metal in nugget &
coin forms, animals and grains were the common mode of trade and barter
throughout the world among strangers.

The first human family, God planted
fruit trees in abundance and variety for the whole family to enjoy.After the fall or separation, mankind began
to do various things and then come together to share (like today’s “potluck”
party); tending sheep and planting various types of grain and fruits for
food.As Adam and Eve’s family grew
bigger and all children ventured away to set up their own bases, mankind also
grew in skills and activities.Learnt to
build stone houses, found abilities to mould/fashion iron and brass and
etc.

In ancient Egypt for example,
within a single country or community, all types of goods produced were shared
and distributed among all citizens.The
first few Egyptian Pharaohs were not like the Kings and Presidents/Prime
Ministers we see today.The early rulers
are merely “overseers” ensuring that every thing is in working properly,
settling disputes; ensure equal distribution of goods and services.Where water and fruits of the earth are
freely given by God and hence must be freely given to the people.Mankind merely learned of ways to make
the land fertile and hence ensuring maximum yield of plantations.

In the beginning
all the peoples were of one language and had a common purpose of survival but
as more and more people moved away from the knowledge of the God who created
them except for the line of Seth to Noah to Abraham, God kept special watch
over them to ensure their survival in a world that was growing more and more
violent and selfish.

Even Noah’s
descendant, King Nimrod was a great ruler who ran his kingdom in a similar
fashion to the resource based economy; but King Nimrod became very proud and
arrogant because of all the riches that he had gathered and the prosperity of
his people and country that he ruled.His
people?

A person be it a king or ruler is not
the owner of another person and you cannot force other people to pledge
allegiance to you.

A husband and wife
may pledge faithfulness to one another.Even in a family unit, a husband and a wife based on mutual trust and
agreement to stay together to help each other and to raise children and even
so, when their children grows up, children normally leave home to go about
their own business.

Abundance of goods coupled with self-elevation, pride
and ego are able to make a person think that he is god or a king.

Did you notice that
Jesus Christ, the God and King of Israel Creator of the heavens and the earth
have NEVER practiced or showed any form or example through HIS lifetime on
earth in the similar fashion of the kings of the earth; and yet Roman Catholic
Popes and Protestant Priests, Pastors, Deacons and etc, behave and have always
displayed themselves through their actions and fashion as if they are somewhat superior or a king.

What is the difference between the Kingship of Jesus
Christ and all other kings on earth?It is not actions of superiority, brains,
birthright or ability to accumulate great amounts of wealth and
merchandise.

(Philippians 2:6-8)
The true kingship of Jesus Christ is His unconditional love, patience,
humility, obedience and obligation to His children and creations.

Philippians

2:1 If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any
comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies,

2:2 Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same
love, being of one accord, of one mind.

2:3 Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in
lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.

2:4 Look not every man on his own things, but every man also
on the things of others.

2:5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:

2:6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to
be equal with God:

2:7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the
form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:

2:8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself,
and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.

2:9 Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given
him a name which is above every name:

2:10 That
at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in
earth, and things under the earth;

2:11 And
that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God
the Father.

2:12 Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as
in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own
salvation with fear and trembling.

2:13 For
it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

2:14 Do
all things without murmurings and disputings:

2:15 That
ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst
of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;

2:16
Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I
have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.

King Nebuchadnezzar
was the first king to mint images of his face or the face of a lion on gold
coins as commemorative treasures.Subsequently all other kingdoms followed his narcissism right up to
today.Roman empire had the face of
Caesar on the coins, as Jesus put it, render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s and
unto God what is God’s. (Mark 12:17)

The currencies of
many countries have pictures of dead Presidents on it.Why don’t we just render unto the dead the
things that are dead and give unto God our life and energy?(No offence to those whose face on currencies
that are still alive today.)

30 years ago, a
child was able open a bank account with any amount (for example, with $10 worth
of coins that the child had saved) and can still earn interest on it.Today, the child would be charged for coin
counting services and small accounts are charged with monthly service charges
and the banks have the right to close your account after they have finished
deducting whatever little amount of money you have left.Even in the Biblical era, Jesus mentioned
about earning interests when you deposit at the bank.

Lets take a look at
some Bible verses on money and interest: -

Genesis 37:28

Then there passed by Midianites merchantmen; and they drew
and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for
twenty pieces of silver: and they brought Joseph into Egypt.

Exodus 22:25
If you lend money to any of My people who are poor among you, you shall not be
like a moneylender to him; you shall not charge him interest.

Leviticus 25:36
Take no usury or interest from him; but fear your God, that your brother may
live with you.

Deuteronomy 23:19
You shall not charge interest to your brother—interest on money or food or
anything that is lent out at interest.

Deuteronomy 23:20
To a foreigner you may charge interest, but to your brother you shall not
charge interest, that the LORD your God may bless you in all to which you set
your hand in the land which you are entering to possess.

Luke 19:23
Why then did you not put my money in the bank, that at my coming I might have
collected it with interest?’

Total
removal of the monetary system

The Venus Project
suggests the total removal of the monetary system including and not limited to all
forms of servitude, trade and barter systems.

Sounds like a
system that brings you back to the Garden of Eden where clean air, food and
crystal clear water are in abundance.

Is it workable?
Yes, of course.

It is a system that the society strives
to attain maximum production and comfort at the same time through constant
innovation and high technology.

In this system,
like the 12 Disciples of Jesus Christ, government officials, local municipal
officers, Pastors and Church leaders of all levels are redeployed to “waste
management” or “abundance spillage management”.

Remember that it is
NOT “abundance management” because we are not here to stop a person from
getting what they need and want, but redistributing “the bread and fish” that
are left over after all the people is fully fed.

The Venus Project
concept cannot work in one particular area or country alone because of the vast
usage and coverage of the monetary based economy in every country on the
planet.

The Venus Project
must be agreed upon and launched simultaneously globally with 100%
participation of all countries in this world so as to ensure fair distribution
of food and water.

For example, if Singapore were to do a pilot
test on this Resource Based Economy, it will have a lot of complications and
will not be able to launch, mainly because Singapore alone have no
natural resources.

Singapore is heavily based on import and export, thus its transaction with
the outside world still requires money.

List taken from Singapore’s Jobstreet.com 18th August 2012.Some of the type of jobs will become obsolete
immediately and some eventually.

In a small country such as Singapore, we
would not see many types of jobs in many other areas like Agriculture, Animal
Husbandry and etc.

How do we move from
the monetary system to the Resource Based Economy?

The best way is to
choose one day to just stop using money altogether.

The parable of the pacifier

When I was two or
three years old, I was still sucking on the pacifier (rubber teats).My mother told me that I am no longer a baby
and that I should stop sucking it but I could not stop by myself.Cousins and acquaintances gave my mother
several suggestions including lacing my pacifier with chili powder.My mother did not want to make me cry in
anyway, so she made a deal with me.When
she bought me my last pacifier, she asked me to hold on to it for as long as I
can and the moment I dropped it on the floor, she will not buy a new one for
me.So, tried to be very careful and
held on to it until one day I dropped it on the floor by accident and I knew
that was it, goodbye pacifier.I did not
cry.I just had to grow out of it.

I hate to burst
your bubble, but it looked like you had already dropped your pacifier and mommy
is not going to buy you a new one.

The monetary system
of paper money and its debits and credits have long failed its purpose to serve
mankind.Since the creation of paper
money, as time progresses, more and more severely was mankind made to serve the
monetary system instead of money serving mankind with usefulness and purpose.

When we create
something, it is suppose to serve us or to make our life easier.

We do not
deliberately invent something to make our life more difficult.Do we?

It would defeat the
purpose of invention and innovation, if a person purposely invented something
to kill himself and all of mankind; it is called insanity.

These are what the
monetary system is doing to humanity today, causing deliberate death and
suicide to people all around the world, either by telling a person that he is
“worthless” because he just lost all the money entrusted to him for investment
on his portfolio, or deliberately creating scarcity so that the price of
commodity would go up, meanwhile, people in many regions are dying of
hunger.

How can man be measured and judged by the things that he
created?

Can the clothes you
wear or the soap that you are using while you are bathing tell you that you are
not worthy of it?

If you can truly
hear things speaking to you, then you are truly insane or is it just
advertising commercial on television?

You need to rest
and relax; and maybe stop using those things that “speak” to you.

Another ridiculous
example of the monetary system is a person paying monthly bank installments for
a shop lot that does not exist.A
developer invites the public to buy shop lots before and during construction of
a shopping mall and offers discounts to those that buy early.Some would pay by cash while mostly would
take up bank loans to buy the shop space and start paying their monthly loan
installments while the shopping center is being built.Halfway through the construction, the
developer went bankrupt and failed to complete the building, leaving the
project all together. Those who already took up the bank loans can either
declare bankrupt themselves in order to avoid paying up the bank loans or
continue paying because the businessman is able to pay and he does not want the
complication of being declared a bankrupt.

There should be a
transitional period of not more than one month to inform and educate all people
BEFORE the monetary system is dropped: -(any longer than 1 month may cause
unnecessary panic and unease among the general public; shorter than one month
may not be able to have enough time to gauge and disseminate information to all
nations)

1)gather information of all the earth’s resources and
plan to use vacant lands for human consumption crops and greenhouses;lands owned by governments and corporations
should be relinquished for common use while individual privately owned land’s usage are up to the landowner’s
decision.

2)educate people on
what to do on and after the day when money is completely dropped from the
economy;(i.e. try your best to do
your eating and shopping in normal quantities, until such a time when there are
more goods are produced, then each person can order more).Try to apply the manna collection and
consumption method that God taught to Moses – that is collect and take what is
needed for the family or what your refrigerator can hold.Try not to take so much until you cannot
finish the food and causing it to rot and thrown away.

Priorities during initial transition period

1)First area of
concern should be placed upon production and distribution of food and locating
and creation of water supplies;

2)Second area of
concern are production and distribution of medical care to any emergency areas;

3)Third area of
concern are locating and production of clean energy supply;

4)When areas of clean
energy supply are located, housing and townships then can be planned near and
around these power sources.

5)As immediate
concern are food, water and shelter, people who already have houses must be
allowed to continue to keep their houses in their name.

6)Those who do not
have a place to stay, the public services sector can help them by allocating
any empty houses that are not sold; to clean up and renovate the house for them
to stay;

7)With the
elimination of money there is no control over the house or choice land location
that a person wants to obtain.As such,
we encourage that a family or each person that already have a house to refrain
from obtaining multiple houses everywhere until at such a time when all the
peoples of the earth have a roof over their heads, when there are surplus homes
built, then each individual person may register to own for more than one house
per family.Why maintain multiple houses
in various places that will most likely be kept empty when you can stay at
hotels without cost in various places when you travel?But then again, we are here to provide
abundance and not to promote scarcity and restrictions.

On the day
after money has stopped circulating and subsequent events: -

1)Factories, shops,
hotels, markets and many types of businesses are encouraged to continue
operations as per normal but without the sound of cash registers;

2)Redistributing
EXCESS food to impoverished communities;

3)If workers, for
example farmers or shop keepers who wish to abandon their land or shop and
change vocations should inform their local public sector office for
redeployment and monitoring of the vacant situations and get volunteers or
people from other sectors who are interested in farming or shop keeping to take
over the vacant position immediately;

4)Public electricity,
water and sanitation services are to continue;

5)Public and private
transportation will go on;

6)Imports/exports (or
Input and Output) and transportation of goods have to continue as per normal as
well as ongoing evaluation on what type of goods are to be imported and
exported based on need and requirement instead of demand and supply; if
there are more orders for a certain type of goods, then more will be produced.

7)Banking, stock
market, capital ventures, income tax offices, accounting firms, auditors and
all forms of monetary based transactions and related services will close down
in one day; and its personnel redeployed to other sectors of their choice;

8)Without the
monetary based systems, most of the Advertising and Marketing services will not
be required;

9)All other types of
work will be reviewed periodically to be added or removed based on
sustainability and whether it is required or necessary for the community.

10)Maids are free to
go home to care for their own families. People who employ maids usually because
both husband and wife work long hours to find money; but without money, one
spouse can rotate to stay at home to look after the children and etc.

11)Stop destructive
industries such as production of weapons and any other insignificant or harmful
materials.(Detailed fact list of
industries should be presented and discussed over before closure)

12)Immediate action to
locate, plan and develop sources of energy that were mentioned such as geo-thermal
and wave power generators in order to replace fossil fuel and coal in a
progressive manner;

13)Locate, plan and
get ready to develop unpopulated areas as the first “circular cities”;

14)After new cities
are populated, then very old and crumbling cities can be vacated, demolished
and rebuilt;

15)All prisoners
should be reviewed and those under petty crimes due to impoverished conditions
and political prisoners should be release immediately;

16)All forms of Media
reporting should be like the weather report. No hiding of actual facts and
figures due to political agendas or presumed assumptions of individuals and
everything should be reported as it is.Reports must be based on direct “verifiable” facts and figures;

17)Patents may be kept
only as record purposes if the inventor wants to let the public know who
started or made a particular product but it should not stop other people from
using or modifying or improving your invention.

18)Education system
will be overhauled progressively and periodically;

19)Respect of another
person’s property and goods at home; since material goods can be obtained
freely at shops and warehouses, decorum and sanctity must be maintained on a
person’s private home to prevent strangers from breaking into another person’s
house to take whatever goods he wants.

During the
transitional period the army can be redeployed to do policing and distribution
work as some form of security is still required to ensure public safety and act
as information providers where people in general can approach them for help and
to assist people with their questions and concerns so as to help ensure a
smooth transition.

With the expectation that manual labourers
from various sectors may
resign from their jobs because of low incentive to continue doing so, the
government and the army shall act as temporary volunteers to fill in the gaps
of food suppliers and distributors until more volunteers from the public can be
registered to help.

No doubt that when
the monetary system and scarcity are eliminated, money related crimes will be
drastically reduced when goods and services are available to all peoples, but
there are many people who are still mentally unstable and other types of crime
will probably still exist.It may take one
or two generations or more before some of the mental problems can be eased out
of society.

As such, the police
force, law enforcers and judges cannot be removed but they can continue to
broaden their job scope and education to include more in depth study on human behaviour counseling, guidance and
social services.

Providing abundance
in food, water and material goods will not stop people from covetousness.Instead of money, a person can still be
obsessed in collecting material goods and nothing can stop a person from
obtaining these goods since the earth is full of it.Merchandise, treasures of gold, silver and
precious stones can still make a person think that he is God (Ezekiel 28).The seed of tares once it grows big and has
taken root in a man, will be hard to change for certain people as they are
completely convinced by their own ego but with God all things are possible.

Nehemiah 9:20

Thou gavest also
thy good spirit to instruct them, and withheldest not thy manna from their
mouth, and gavest them water for their thirst.

Nehemiah 9:21

Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness,
so that they lacked nothing; their clothes waxed not old, and their feet
swelled not.

Nehemiah 9:23

Their children also multipliedst thou as
the stars of heaven, and broughtest them into the land, concerning which thou
hadst promised to their fathers, that they should go in to possess it.

Nehemiah 9:24

So the children went in and possessed the land, and thou
subduedst before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gavest
them into their hands, with their kings, and the people of the land, that they
might do with them as they would.

Nehemiah 9:25

And they took strong cities, and a fat land, and possessed
houses full of all goods, wells digged, vineyards, and oliveyards, and fruit
trees in abundance: so they did eat, and were filled, and became fat, and
delighted themselves in thy great goodness.

Nehemiah 9:26

Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against
thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets which
testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great
provocations.

Nehemiah 9:27

Therefore thou deliveredst them into the hand of their
enemies, who vexed them: and in the time of their trouble, when they cried unto
thee, thou heardest them from heaven; and according to thy manifold mercies
thou gavest them saviours, who saved them out of the hand of their enemies.

Nehemiah 9:28

But after they had rest, they did evil again before thee:
therefore leftest thou them in the land of their enemies, so that they had the
dominion over them: yet when they returned, and cried unto thee, thou heardest
them from heaven; and many times didst thou deliver them according to thy
mercies;

Nehemiah 9:29

And testifiedst against them, that thou mightest bring them
again unto thy law: yet they dealt proudly, and hearkened not unto thy
commandments, but sinned against thy judgments, (which if a man do, he shall
live in them;) and withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not
hear.

Nehemiah 9:30

Yet many years didst thou forbear them, and testifiedst
against them by thy spirit in thy prophets: yet would they not give ear:
therefore gavest thou them into the hand of the people of the lands.

For they have not served thee in their kingdom, and in thy great
goodness that thou gavest them, and in the large and fat land which thou gavest
before them, neither turned they from their wicked works.

Nehemiah 9:36

Behold, we are servants this day, and for the land that thou
gavest unto our fathers to eat the fruit thereof and the good thereof, behold,
we are servants in it:

Nehemiah 9:37

And it yieldeth much increase unto
the kings whom thou hast set over us because of our sins: also they
have dominion over our bodies, and over our cattle, at their pleasure, and we
are in great distress.

Where we go from today onwards is up to you
– continue heading towards oblivion or build up paradise on earth with the
LORD’s guidance, love and brotherhood.